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Join us for a conversation about promoting vocational exploration beyond the traditional campus. Our panelists (pictured here, clockwise from top left) will be Heather Brady of Grand View University, who will discuss community engagement with a focus on social justice; Jason Mahn of Augustana University (IL), who will help us think about education for vocation […]

Many colleges and universities use retreats to facilitate vocational exploration among students. The opportunity to leave campus, remove oneself from distractions, and embark on meaningful exploration is valuable. But while some retreats are designed to cut through the harsh realities of our world in order to focus on the interior, this is a story about […]

By Samantha D. Brown, assistant professor of psychology at Coe College In May 2024, my colleague Barb Tupper, associate vice president for advancement, and I will be hosting a three-day seminar about teaching vocation for faculty members and staff at Coe College. The two of us are leaders within Coe’s C3 initiative, which fosters connections […]

Congratulations to long-time NetVUE leader Younus Mirza, who recently received a grant sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation and the American Academy of Religion (AAR) focusing on advancing public scholarship on religion. The program supports scholars of religion who are working to engage publics in innovative ways, through projects designed for presentation in public spaces […]

Reviewed by Rachael Baker, NetVUE Director of Professional Development The Good Enough Job explores the relationships that people (in North America) have with their paid work. The author, Simone Stolzoff, invites us to consider stories in which interviewed workers are grappling with the reality that the promises for fulfillment in their paid careers have not […]

By John Barton, co-host of the NetVUE podcast, Callings Vocational discernment does not begin with a blank canvas. The goals and choices we make, and the preparations we pursue, emerge within the circumstances of life. But when we talk about vocational discernment in the context of higher education, we still tend to think in terms […]

Agents of Repair: Norman Wirzba  Norman Wirzba’s research, writing, and teaching explores the overlap between theology and ecology, and addresses major environmental issues such as the climate crisis and food insecurity. In this conversation, we discuss aspects of agrarian living, freedom and fidelity, and the importance of kinesthetic learning. His emphasis on our relationship to […]

Toni Morrison and the Call to Imagine Kerry Hasler-Brooks (November 6, 2023)  “Many institutions offer (and market) curricular and co-curricular programming to prepare students with the necessary knowledge and skills—both the hard skills of the applied arts and the soft skills of the liberal arts—to contribute to the diverse professional contexts that they will enter […]

Our students always find it challenging to explore and discern their many callings in life, but their work becomes much harder when the news is saturated with reports of domestic and international tension, conflict, and war. How can we support students in this difficult time? In just a few days, NetVUE will present a webinar […]

The 2024 NetVUE Conference will take place March 21–23, 2024, at the Atlanta Hilton Downtown in Atlanta, Georgia. The cost for your institution’s first three team members—including registration, food, and lodging—is only $200 each, which represents a subsidy of about $1,000 per person. Up to two additional team members can participate at the regular conference cost.   […]